Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-02-01 Thread Kenneth Karlsen
Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:43:08PM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: The mouse will make the window bigger, but it doesn't change the font size!! You could try to hold down shift and use the + and - on the numerical keypad to change the font and windowsize. It works for

Re: Solved Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 01:05:48AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/30/2009 11:58 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 02:51:35PM -0600, Dennis Wicks was >> heard to say: >>> Thanks for the insight! I'll remember to use TERM when I have to kill >>> so errant process. It might sa

Re: Solved Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/30/2009 11:58 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 02:51:35PM -0600, Dennis Wicks was heard to say: Thanks for the insight! I'll remember to use TERM when I have to kill so errant process. It might save me a headache in the future! The difference between TERM and KILL, b

Re: Solved Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 02:51:35PM -0600, Dennis Wicks was heard to say: > Thanks for the insight! I'll remember to use TERM when I have to kill so > errant process. It might save me a headache in the future! The difference between TERM and KILL, btw, is that TERM asks the program to shut dow

Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-30 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:43:08PM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: > > The mouse will make the window bigger, but it doesn't change the font > size!! > xterm has a neat feature. Ctrl-right lick of the mouse in an xterm will pop up a menu where you can choose the font size, etc. In case you need to make

Re: Solved Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-30 Thread Dennis Wicks
Ken Irving wrote the following on 01/30/2009 01:30 PM: It might be useful to compare the terminal settings in the `bad' vs `good' cases, e.g., using stty -a > bad, etc.. You might be able to find something to tweak to fix that particular problem. Well behaved programs should return the termi

Re: Solved Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-30 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:28:03AM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Daniel Burrows wrote the following on 01/30/2009 09:46 AM: >> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:21:21PM -0600, Dennis Wicks was >> heard to say: >>> I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal >>> window doesn't wrap c

Solved Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-30 Thread Dennis Wicks
Daniel Burrows wrote the following on 01/30/2009 09:46 AM: On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:21:21PM -0600, Dennis Wicks was heard to say: I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing on the next line it j

Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:21:21PM -0600, Dennis Wicks was heard to say: > I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window > doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing on > the next line it just returns to the beginning of the current line and >

Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-29 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:21:21PM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window > doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing on > the next line it just returns to the beginning of the current line and

Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-29 Thread Dennis Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 10:33 PM: On 01/29/2009 10:00 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:56 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:52 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:36 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:21 PM, Dennis Wicks

Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/29/2009 10:00 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:56 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:52 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:36 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:21 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have just discovered that the comma

Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-29 Thread Dennis Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:56 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:52 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:36 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:21 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window doesn't w

Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/29/2009 09:52 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:36 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:21 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continui

Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-29 Thread Dennis Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:36 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:21 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing on the next line it just returns to the be

Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/29/2009 09:21 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing on the next line it just returns to the beginning of the current line and writes over it. As you